Quality Assurance Analyst - Toronto, Canada - Red Label Vacations

Red Label Vacations

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Travel legends start here

Position:
Quality Assurance Analyst

Status:
Full Time

Department:

IT

Reports to:
Director, PMO

Location:
Head Office Toronto, Ontario or Montreal, Quebec office (Hybrid)

The Opportunity

How you will be Spending Your Time

Working in collaboration with Product Managers and/or Business Analysts to write concise acceptance criteria and provide comprehensive gap analysis during the development of requirements
Working closely with all stakeholders, including developers, to ensure that quality is built into every step of the process, rather than at separate stages.
Lead the team in planning, preparing and executing effective test efforts and walkthroughs
Help manage, create, and deliver testing strategies and plans using risk analysis methodologies and tools that align with the development approach/methodology selected for their assigned project
Ensure the test process, methodologies and tools are applied appropriately and that the test phase entry/exit criteria are agreed to by stakeholders and applied by the test team
Communication and understanding of the impact to testing for scope changes to the project management team both from a timeline/cost and a risk perspective
Prioritize testing tasks based on goals and risks of projects and ensure testing milestones, activities and tasks are completed as scheduled
Support the team in creating reusable test assets for both manual and automated test scripts
Lead the continuous, measured improvement of testing processes, strategies, plans and frameworks
Primary liaison for testing resources and business participants on business acceptance test support
Manage relationships with project team members, third party vendors/ service partners, release teams and client areas as appropriate
Provide assistance/guidance to teammates on policy, procedures, testing tasks and training in general
Helps in implementation of new testing strategies
Be creative to solve current issues and shape the product to bring it to a higher quality
Document business requirements in various forms, usually in naturallanguage documents, use cases, user stories, or process specifications
Participate in planning sessions to improve business processes for the creation of business requirements and test cases
Assess business needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, reevaluating, and managing changes) to prioritize immediate business needs and recommends options
All other duties as assigned by management

The Skills, Experience and Requirements You Need to be Successful

Degree or diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field

years of QA experience, with at least 5 years of solid work experience in a QA/Test Lead role

Experience working in an agile software development team promoting methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum and TDD
Familiarity with entire software development life cycle and test cycles (Unit, Regression,

Functional, Systems, Stress & Scale, Smoke & Sanity)

Understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
Experience coordinating with external QA resources
Prior success using a metricsdriven approach and closedloop feedback to improve software deliverables and improve predictability and reliability of releases
Detailed and effective written communication skills for documenting the features tested and bugs found
Highly organized, detail oriented, extremely responsive, and able to prioritize many tasks
Selfmotivated, works well independently and with others
Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills

Required Qualification

Exposure to automation testing and automation tools
Understand and working knowledge of automate testing processes
Experience with performance / load testing
Experience using Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence) for defect tracking and Documentation

Preferred Certifications

Certified from International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) or equivalent (ISEB) is an asset
Agile certification
CSM/PSM is good to have

Type of Exposure

Demonstrated understanding of any
Agile delivery model (Kanban, XP etc.)
Deep understanding of tools and technologies in complete
SDLC and STLC Methodologies:
**DevOps
CI/CD Pipeline **knowledge using Jenkins would be advantageous
Experience working in the
Travel domain would be a great asset

Crew Advantages

Competitive salary
5 paid sick days
2 paid personal days
1 paid volunteer day
1 paid day off for your birthday
Travel perks for you and your friends and family
Medical and dental benefits
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
Several corporate benefits and discounts provided by our partners such as auto and home insurance and gym memberships
RRSP Employer Match
Career Development opportunities

**Are You